@article{ref1,
title="Failed statebuilding versus peace formation",
journal="Cooperation and conflict",
year="2013",
author="Richmond, Oliver P.",
volume="48",
number="3",
pages="378-400",
abstract="This article outlines the often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches. It introduces a new concept of 'peace formation', which counterbalances a reliance on internal violent or externalised institutions' agency, reform and conditionality. Without incorporating a better understanding of the multiple and often critical agencies involved in peace formation, the states emerging from statebuilding will remain as they are: failed by design. This is because they are founded on externalised systems, legitimacy and norms rather than a contextual, critical and emancipatory epistemology of peace. Engaging with the processes of peace formation may aid international actors in gaining a better understanding of the roots of a conflict, how local actors may be assisted, how violence and power-seeking may be ended or managed and how local legitimacy may emerge.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-8367",
doi="10.1177/0010836713482816",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010836713482816"
}